Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed: Utopia will be a strategy simulation game for iOS and Android devices set in America’s early colonial era.

Players can build their own 17th century colony and then watch it grow over a 150 year time span–from when the settlers first arrive until the beginning of the revolution. Your settlement will host the first band of assassins and players will be able to pit their groups against friends to see which settlement is greater. There will also be an option to enlist the help of friend’s assassins to take down foes in limited time epic battles.

Ubisoft offered a winter release window for the game. The publisher previously mentioned that there will be no ties between Utopia and Assassin’s Creed III bar narrative, basically meaning that there will be no bonus items to unlock.

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